account / bill / debt / CL:本[ben3],筆|笔[bi3]

= + : The crab (贝) opened a bank account (账) at the James II of England's (zh) bank in the anglepod's bathroom (ang4), but the crab soon owns a lot of money to James II of England. One day James II of England has enough and confiscates the crab's longboard (长) to cover the debt.

账 character breakdown

cowrie / shellfish / currency (archaic)

= + : Mnemonic symbol: a crab. In the Eiffel Tower's bathroom (ei4), the Neanderthal man (人) and Beelzebub (b) are fighting a crab with staplers (⺆), but because the Neanderthal man (人) can't handle the stapler he accidentally staples himself in the forehead.
length / long / forever / always / constantly

= + + 丿 : Charlie Chaplin sped into the anglepod riding his longboard, but in the kitchen he doesn't know how to stop. He manages to make a u-turn by hooking him to the pole of a wind wheel with a sickle, but after the turn he can't help but bump into a giant banana.
chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

= + + 丿 : The chief (长) is asking James II of England (zh) for help, because his wind wheel (丆) in the anglepod's living room (丆) isn't performing very well. After finding out that there's too much friction, James II of England uses a sickle (乛) to cut open a banana (丿) and uses the pulp to grease the wind wheel and enhance (长) its performance.

Characters with 账 as component

账 is not used as a component in another character.

Words with 账

(accounting) to balance the books; to do the accounts / (fig.) to settle an account; to get one's revenge
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
variant of 買帳|买帐[mai3 zhang4]
to keep accounts / bookkeeping / to charge to an account
to buy or sell on credit / outstanding account / to have an outstanding account
to demand repayment / to collect debt
lit. to settle accounts after autumn (idiom) / fig. to settle scores at an opportune time
to own up to a fault / to admit the truth / to acknowledge a debt
lit. old account / old debt / fig. old scores to settle / old quarrels / old grudge
muddled accounts / a mess of bookkeeping
disorganized accounts / uncollectable debts; bad debt
to settle an account
accounts in a rotten state
to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
to turn over old accounts / fig. to revive old quarrels / to reopen old wounds
debt of blood (after killing sb)
to demand payment / to collect overdue payment
an account book / a ledger / a bill

Sentences with 账

账 currently does not appear in any sentence.